29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (Record n° 173)
Orbital period : 14.85 years
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2010 Apr 20 22h01 UT by Thierry Noel
(Copyright Thierry Noel)Nuclear magnitude (m2) 14.7 m2 standard deviation 0.1 Aperture radius used for m2 5 " r (dist/Sun) 6.206 AU d (dist/Earth) 5.827 AU Right ascension 09 16 14.74 h m s Declination +13 22 09.6 ° ' " MPC report COD B83
CON Thierry NOEL [thierrynoel1@laposte.net]
OBS T. Noel
MEA T. Noel
TEL 0.20-m f/5.0 reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2010.04.22 23:41:44
AC2 thierrynoel1@laposte.net
NET UCAC-3
0029P C2010 04 20.91764 09 16 14.74 +13 22 09.6 14.6 N B83
0029P C2010 04 20.93620 09 16 14.80 +13 22 09.7 14.8 N B83
Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 200 mm Instrument focale length 1000 mm Instrument focale/diameter 5.0 Camera SBIG ST7-XME Sensor CCD Sensor size 6.9x4.6 mm2 Sensor pixels number 765x510 Sensor temperature -15 °C Binning 1x1 Mount Atlas-EQG Autoguide Yes Exposure total time 1560 s Exposure details 13x2mn Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Moon phase 100 ° Moon elongation 29 ° Observatory MPC code B83 Location Gieres 38610 France Reference stars catalog UCAC-3
Used softwares ASTROMETRICA Resulting picture sampling (scale) 1.86 "/pix Image processing Astrometrica: dark sub, add
Iris: gradient, levels, crop Observation submission date 2010 Apr 23 09h11m35s